What’s New, What’s Hot and Who’s Buying: Expert Advice for Selling Uniforms and Aprons

This year alone, British Airways, Delta Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and more announced they would revamp their employee uniforms to achieve a more updated look for each airline. All this attention to employee uniforms and aprons is great news for promotional apparel distributors looking to cash in on new business opportunities…

Prime Line Adds Production Capacity to Accommodate Surge of 24-Hour and Holiday Orders

Prime Line, the hard goods division of alphabroder based in Bridgeport, Conn., announced it has increased production capacity by 20 percent through the addition of multiple production lines and warehousing space to accommodate a surge of 24-hour rush holiday orders. “The continued steady growth of our 24-hour rush items as well as our gift category…

What 22 Years of Starbucks Holiday Cups Tell Us About Drinkware Decoration Trends

It’s hard to believe that Starbucks’ holiday cups have been around for 22 years, but according to ABC7, this is indeed the case. Thankfully, there’s a video that gives us the chance to watch the evolution of the holiday cup into what it is today. And we’ve got three key takeaways from Starbucks’ two decades of designs…

Kid Rock Avoids Legal Trouble Over Merch-Centric ‘Senate’ Campaign

Kid Rock has found himself in the public eye for two decades (as if we needed another reminder about how much older we are all growing), forging a career that has been high on hits and controversies. Meshing his penchants for issuing well-received music and ruffling feathers, the chart-topping artist and Michigan native last year…

The 2018 Top 50 Promotional Products Distributors Confirmation

Click here to download your free copy of The 2018 Top 50 Promotional Products Distributors. The 2018 Top 50 Promotional Products Distributors is a comprehensive ranking of the largest companies in the business, ranked by 2017 sales that total $5.2 billion. Looking for more resources?  Visit Promo Marketing’s resource library where you’ll find more free whitepapers and resource reports on…

Cincinnati Reds Win Legal Battle Over Promo Items Tax: Analysis

Wins proved hard to come by for the Cincinnati Reds this past season, as their 67-95 record marked their sixth-straight losing campaign and landed them in the National League Central Division’s basement. Despite that futility, they had cause to celebrate on Thanksgiving Day, as only a few hours prior to the holiday, the Ohio Supreme…

APISource Inc. Founder and Mentor Charles G. Brown Passes Away

APISource Inc., Lanham, Md., announced last week that founder Charles G. Brown has passed away. Charles opened the doors of Charles G. Brown Inc. in Marlyand, 1965. Operating as a sole proprietorship in the formative years of the company, he eventually brought on additional team members, including his son Michael Brown and longtime friend Leo Boone, to help grow the business…